• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Those nuclear power plants won’t come online for a decade at least. It’s better to spend the money on renewables and storage.

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      6 months ago

      And if we started building them a decade ago we would have them now. We need to start building them now, because it’s only gonna be worse in 10 years.

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        6 months ago

        By then it will be too late, especially considering the extra CO2 that building them will create with no electricity provided at all

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          6 months ago

          That is hilariously naive. The world is gonna keep turning either way. People aren’t just gonna suddenly all up and disappear. And the climate isn’t like a thing where you reach a certain point and you just give up. We can lessen how bad things will be. Making nuclear now is the right choice, so that in 10 years we can cut as many polluting forms of energy as we can.

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            6 months ago

            I’d rather spend $10 billion on renewables that would start coming online almost immediately than lock that money up in a plant that won’t start recouping the carbon debt from its construction in a decade.

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      6 months ago

      Greenpeace advocated for this back in the 1970s and that’s why we have an enormous wind and solar industry today. The Greenpeace lobby was just too damned powerful.

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        6 months ago

        The reason we didn’t build any reactors after the 1970s is a combination of nuclear disarmament and slow return on investment, not Greenpeace. If Greenpeace had that much power they would have been able to shut down the oil and gas industry, too.